Improvement in car-couplings



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

JOSEPH GUM, OF. MARSEILLES, ILLINOIS, ASS IGNOB OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO FREDERIG KANE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,756, dated October 21, 1873; application filed 1 January 7, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GUM, of Marseilles, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Couplers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the let ters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 aside View, of my invention.

This invention has relation to that class of car-couplings in which devices are provided for raising the link of an approaching car and the pin of the car to which said devices are attached; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices whereby the lifting-plate is rendered adjustable to suit oars having different-sized links, substantially as hereinafter specified.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the bumper or draw-head, the neck part B of which extends back underneath the car-platform, and j is recessed in its under surface, as shown at a. O designates the hinged plate, by means of which the end of an approaching link is raised and properly conducted into the cavity of the draw-head A. This plate lies in front of its bumper, beingsecured to a U-shaped bar, the arms I) of which extend back on either side of the bumper. These, arms are hinged or pivoted to the upwardly-bent, and thence inwardly-projecting, ends of a rod, D, which is bent to the form of the letter Y, and passed under the neck of the bumper into the recess a, where it is held by means of loops E on the ends of a metal strap, d, passing around said neck, as shown.

This arrangement of the hinged plate allows it to be somewhat adjusted. The ends of the bent rod D should be provided with nuts 1' to prevent the arms I) from being displaced.

F designates the coupling-pin, suspended from a link, G, which passes through a slot in an arm, G, projecting from the middle part of a transverse bar, H, journaled to the end'or platform of the car. Passing through said slot is also a bent rod, 1, which is attached to the arms I). The rod H has handles K, located at the sides of the car. By turning said rod the link-plate and coupling-pin may be simultaneonsly raised or lowered. Attached to the end of the arm G is a chain, L, which passes to the top or platform of the car, so that the linkplate and pin may be controlled by a per son on the platform or roof of a car. M designates a stop-plate, against which one of the handles K strikes when the link-plate and pin are raised, and which thus prevents these de vices from being raised too high.

I do not claim as my invention the parts 0 Z) G G H'KI; but

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The adjustable bent or Y-shaped device D, secured to the bumper-shank by means of the strap d, having loop E, in combination with the combined link and pin lifter, constructed substantially as herein shown and described. I

2. The combined link and pin lifter, consisting of the plate 0, having the'arms b hinged to the bent rod D, the loop I, pivoted to the arms 1) between the plate 0 and rod D, the transverse bar H, having the handles K, the arm G, supporting the loop I, and the bent or Y-shaped adjustable device D, secured to the bumper-shank by means of the loop E of the strap (1, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of December, 1872.

JOSEPH GUM. WVitnesscs:

W. A. MONEY, T. G. NORTHRUP. 

